PHP has a reputation for being poorly designed and inconsistent. This reputation has been earned through a lifetime of organic growth. Some of this criticism is deserved, but some parts—The Good Parts—keep us coming back for more. Join us as we discuss the reasons why PHP powers most of the Web despite its flaws.
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Scaling is a perennial problem. One day you are happily serving 10,000 users and suddenly that pesky CNN picks you on you and you have to deal with a million users. It isn't all about putting the latest hardware, more disk or more RAM. Scaling is a subtle art of discovering pain points in the application and using various Open Source software and technologies to get you to where you want.
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In this laboratory, we will carry out a safety audit of an Open Source web application. We will work on a real application. The laboratory will end with the handing over of the report to the authors of the application so they can have an outside view on the safety of the application.
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Drupal is a highly modular, Open Source Content Management System with a wealth of powerful add-on modules. Learn to harness it all and build dynamic websites with Drupal from authors of the book, Using Drupal.
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What does the future hold in store for filesystem and storage technologies? Why is it that there has been a flowering of new filesystems showing up in Linux in the last 18 months? This talk will review the new file systems and storage technologies which have shown up in Linux and discuss what is likely to come in the future.
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Keeping track of configuration changes between hundreds of servers is a challenging task not to mention keeping a history of all the changes that were made. This session focusing on utilizing open source technology to not only help you manage your servers but it also promote teamwork and self documentation. I'll focus on how the OSU Open Source Lab uses cfengine and git to manage their servers.
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Git is a distributed version control system with easy branching that has forever changed the way that open source projects accept contributions. By embracing a pattern of casual forking, the barrier to submit patches and track upstream changes is reduced, resulting in an explosion of contributors and patches. This talk will use case studies to illustrate how your project can enjoy these benefits.
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Inspekt is a filtering and validation library for PHP5. With a focus on ease of use, Inspekt makes writing secure PHP applications faster and easier. This talk covers the Inspekt library and the "input cage" concept, best practices when utilizing the library, and how to integrate Inspekt with existing applications and popular frameworks.
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In the process of creating application for the new user experience in Moblin 2.0, a lot has been learned about how to effectively use Clutter to build aesthetically pleasing and practical interfaces. This will be a tutorial on how to implement complex and good-looking UI animations using Clutter.
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We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for
Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software
infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing.
The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server
infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that
is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.
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On Download Day 2008 eight million users downloaded Firefox 3 and set a Guinness World Record. Firefox 3's in-product help is provided by support.mozilla.com, written in PHP and using a variety of FOSS tools. Learn how we scaled up for Download Day and how we support millions of users worldwide.
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Web applications are like trees. Slice through them and you can judge their age by looking at the growth rings. You've probably abandoned PHP4 compatibility by now, but are you taking advantage of practices that have made web application development a mature discipline? Come with us on a tour of PHP best practices in 2009.
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You unit test your application API. You unit test your presentation layer. You write integration and acceptance tests. But your database is tested only as a side-effect to testing everything else. That's a pretty important part of the stack to just leave to the assumption it works as expected!
Come to this talk to learn about the tools that enable integrated unit tests for your database.
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Most developers have heard of XDebug, but how many of them have actually used it to its full potential? Here we explore all the exciting things XDebug can do to improve code, from profiling to benchmarking to variable output.
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Everyone agrees that we need coding standards, but they often overlook the need to define a naming standard for thier SQL and database related items. This talk we not be a top-down explination of "the right way to do it", but rather we'll explore the key issues you need to be aware of, from all sides, and help you determine the right standards for your organization.
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